This study assessed early adolescents' sexual communication with dating partners, parents,
and best friends about six sexual health topics: condoms, birth control, sexually transmitted …

Context: Teenagers' communication with their partners about sex and their use of condoms
may be influenced by the discussions teenagers have with their parents about sex …

Objective: To examine associations between parent-adolescent communication about sex-
related topics and the sex-related communication and practices of African American …

Sexual communication is a principal means of transmitting sexual values, beliefs,
expectations, and knowledge between parents and children. Although this area has …

CONTEXT: Social‐psychological theories of health behavior suggest that adolescents'
sexual behaviors are influenced by the sexual attitudes and behaviors of their friends …

Two hundred thirty‐four 19‐to 21‐year‐old women completed interviews that assessed
parent‐adolescent relations, sexual communication, and selected sexual risk behaviors and …

Importance Parent-adolescent sexual communication has received considerable attention
as a factor that can positively affect safer sex behavior among youth; however, the evidence …

Sexual communication is a principal means of transmitting sexual values, beliefs,
expectations, and knowledge from parents to children. Although this area has received …

PURPOSE: This study had two aims: first, to examine the relationship between general
sexual communication and contraceptive use in sexually active adolescent romantic …

Parent–adolescent sexual communication can help reduce sexual risk behaviors among
adolescents. However, research and theory are less clear regarding the specific pathways …